On the first day of her introductory religion class at Merrimack College just north of Boston, professor Rebecca Sachs Norris put her students to work at having some fun.

She assigned teams of three or four students to play some of the many religious board games that fill her office shelves. Weeks later, they had to present their classmates with what they gleaned from each game.

As one team discussed BuddhaWheel, a game that teaches about Buddhism, Norris, chair of Merrimack’s religious and theological studies department, asked, “Can you win this game?

“One of them said, `Well, yes, but it takes a very, very long time! You just keep getting born over and over and over again.’

“I said, `Exactly, that’s it!’, and they learned it in a way that is very different.”

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1. teatime wrote: Anyone know anything about the Episcopopoly game mentioned in the article? I wonder if there’s a feature by which you can sue the other players for their property? December 22, 3:44 pm | [comment link]

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